Sacked AG, Swindling Hospice, Student Scandal

On Thursday night, Rich reacts to the reassignment of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was ceremoniously sacked by being moved to another DOJ position. Then, Los Angeles swindlers with healthcare licences defrauded the government out of tens of millions in Hospice funds. Plus, a deep dive into the scandalous trend of female teachers pursuing their students for sex. 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Former Christian Administration official.

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Rich Valdez Communist now with the Washington Times.

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America with your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with an
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Welcome to the Thursday night edition of the program. Blessed
and honored to be here with you all. Thanks for
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(00:47):
you want to join us is eight seven seven. I
don't even know the number, eight seven seven Valdes one,
eight seven seven Valdez one. Anyway, I want to get
into a couple of things, some news that broke earlier today.
Of course, President Trump being the first president to ever
attend a oral arguments of the Supreme Court of the

(01:08):
United States for the fourteenth Amendment case on birthright citizenship.
And this of course really big deal, I think, because well,
obviously it's a precedent setting thing. And b if you
were watching it, the cameras were very interesting. As President
Trump was leaving the hearing, guess what he's talking to

(01:32):
Attorney General Pambondy. And moments later we hear reports that
she is out. She's no longer going to be serving
as the Attorney General of the United States. We got
a report from Fox NEWSUS Peter Doucy on this one.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Check this out, Kayley, I just got off the phone
with President Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
We have a big scoop.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Pam Bondi will soon leave her job as the Attorney General.
She is going to get a different job within the administration.
It doesn't sound like there is any bad blood between
her and President Trump, but it does seem like they
want her to go and do something else, and in
an interim role. She will be replaced by Todd Blanche,

(02:14):
who is currently her deputy at the Justice Department. So
it doesn't sound like Blanche is being elevated long term
to the Attorney General. There might be somebody else that
the President wants to go in there, but President Trump
soon will announce to the entire world that it is
the end of Pambondi's time as the Attorney General. He

(02:35):
still thinks that she is a great person and that
she did a good job, and he still wants her
in the fold because she will still be an important
part of the administration, he tells me, but no longer
as the top law enforcement officer of the United States.
That at least for a little while, is going to
be Todd Blanche.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
So that's again Peter Doucy from the Fox News Channel.
I'm bringing that news to life. And shortly after that
posts making their way around the internet that this had
a lot more to do with a certain coziness that
Attorney General Bondi had. Now, again, this is all speculation,
and I don't do this in any way to speak

(03:16):
ill of Attorney General Bondi. I don't know her personally.
I met her once in one of the suites at
Madison Square Garden for the New York City Trump rally.
She was very charming. She was there with Secretary Linda McMahon,
who I've had on my show a couple of times,
and you know, I said a quick hello, and that
was it. So I couldn't you know I can pick
her out of a lineup, because I've seen herund TV

(03:38):
a million times. I doubt she could pick me out
of a lineup. But that being said, a certain coziness
is being described as what was had between Eric Swoalwell,
the Congressman, and of course Attorney General BONDI listed to us.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
A through December of twenty twenty five, we received messages
at my office that said, I hope so somebody shoots
you and your children and your wife in the head.
Pew pw motherfucker, pew pugh. I would stay indoors as
much as possible, and my children, unfortunately have to do that.
The Department of Justice has not charged this individual in
cited that he's a prolific caller and has health conditions,

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although what we have found in our investigation and his
voicemails is that he has said he will employ others
to do this. The President can come after me. It's fine,
I'm in the arena, so are these folks. But we
never expected that the Department of Justice would not seek
to prosecute and investigate those who are making threats against us,

(04:36):
and that would include those on that side of the aisle,
and I'm just asking for your help to protect life
because life is at risk with the environment we're.

Speaker 7 (04:44):
In right now.

Speaker 8 (04:46):
Congressman, I completely agree with you. I know about several
of those personally involving you. I believe one has been
charged publicly, and there's something I would be happy to
talk to you about off camera. But I can assure
you that they are very serious. They are being looked into,

(05:08):
and I can give you more details on those. None
of you should be threatened ever, None of your children
should be threatened. None of your families should be threatened.
And I will work with you. Can come into my
office any day. I will work with all of you
on both sides of the aisle. If you are ever threatened,
and I would, I'll gladly talk to you after this

(05:29):
hearing about your cases. But I can tell you some
of them are very active.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
So again that's an exchange. While Pam Bondi is under
oath as attorney General in a hearing in that moment
being led by Eric Swalwell, the congressman and Colin Rugg
reporting that she was fired in part because President Trump
believed that she had tipped off Eric Swalwell according to
The Daily Mail. This thus far, I don't know about it,

(05:58):
if it's verified or not, but I know this is
what's being reported that Trump reportedly believes BONDI had tiptof
Swalwell about the FBI's efforts to share investigative documents about
his relationship with an alleged spy that we all know
is Fang. Fang. The FBI was preparing a cash of
documents on Swalwell's relationship with Christine Fang, and that was

(06:21):
alleged by the Daily Mail. She's intervening in those matters.
The White House wasn't pleased she was intervening due to
her personal friendship with mister Swalwell. And that is what
a source told the Daily Mail. It's a quote from
their reporting. I don't know. I don't know the extent
of it. I know that she did an amazing rock
star job when she was defending the president as a civilian,

(06:43):
as a citizen from Florida during his first impeachment. She
was terrific. Then She's always been terrific in her analysis
on Fox News. And I think some people feel that
she left some business on the table that didn't do enough,
you know, lacked much to be desired, if you will,
with respect to prosecuting the lawbreakers, right Democrats that have

(07:09):
been alleged or accused or believed to have broken the law.
And I don't know the answer to that. Again, you've
always known my thought on this. I don't think it's
a Pam Bondi problem. I think it's a swamp problem.
I don't believe that there are many individuals, right, you
know who I think could do this type of thing
who would be primed for it. Rudy Giuliani. I think

(07:30):
Rudy Giuliani would be ready to go. I think the
woman that they made out to be a crazy person,
what's her name, Sidney Powell. I think Sidney Powell. I
would venture to say that in both of those cases,
then I do think that they would do a really
good job. That in both cases, neither of them would

(07:50):
get confirmed by the Senate. And I don't think President
Trump would even nominate either of them, to be frank
with you, why, I think I'll tell you why. I
think that President Trump sees that as too much of
an uphill battle. He realizes that every move he makes
in Washington, he has to expend some political capital in

(08:11):
some areas he has plenty of capital to expend. In
others not so much. So you want to be careful
on how you are expending your political capital. That's just
the reality of the currency in Washington, d C. Now,
do I think that guides and informs everything the president doesn't? No.
I think the president is largely guided and informed by
what he believes to be his right to do the
right thing. So it's kind of like you and me.

(08:32):
We think the right thing is to donate to this
charity or to help this particular family in need. That's
where our heart is. Then we go to our checkbook
and we are I'm going to give you Oh wait,
hold on, I can't give you ten thousand. Well maybe
I can give you two. No, wait a second, maybe
it's looking more like a grand Oh hold on, I
just found out I got to buy some more orthodontire,
So looks like it's going to be somewhere between two

(08:54):
fifty and five hundred bucks. There are realities on the
currency that you can expend based on what you have
available to spend at the time you're spending it. That's it.
There's not really a credit card unless you want to
owe some favors, and even that, you know, comes with
a cost. So I think that's part of the reason
why I think the president is limited in who he
can nominate and picks the best person when he picks them.

(09:15):
That's that. So I'll keep you up to speed on that,
because again I don't know the entirety of that case.
I don't know if that's a little smear, I don't
know anything. Honestly, I think Pam Bondi was great, and
I don't think she was dragging her feet. I don't
think that she was complicit in some Epstein thing. I
don't think that she was part of the problem. I
think that the solution that so many people and again

(09:36):
when I say so many people, and I should probably
say some people, that some people expect to bring everybody
to the gallows, to bring everyone to the electric chair.
You know, we're gonna see everybody from Maxine Waters and
Nancy Pelosi to Bill Gates to doctor Fauci, to Build Clinton,
Barack Obama and everyone else for their crimes against humanity.
This is not happening. Not happening, whether it deserves to

(09:58):
happen or not, it's not happening.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Some might argue, well, the reason it's not happening is
because of BONDI all right, time will tell if Todd
Blanche is the ag. Todd Blanche is already on the
record saying that he would not look into the Epstein
files any further, that everything had to be done was done.
So now we're gonna blame him, right and saying he's
also complicit, that he's also the bad guy. Somehow what
he's doing is wrong. I don't think that we can
do that. I don't think it's appropriate anyway, Moving along,

(10:21):
I also want to get into, let's see, oh yes,
the latest on Iran. Forgive me, I'm a little slow
motion here. Plus those molester stories. I wanted to get
into these teachers that are being accused of sexual misconduct
with students. Is there a theme? Is there something that
is common amongst each situation? I don't know. I don't

(10:42):
know the answer, but we're going to find that out
when we return. Don't go anywhere. I'm rich child, that's
this is America.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
This is America.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
All right, up, he goes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, Valdest.
We got ask that Rich Valdest on all off the
social media Welcome back, Happy Thursday to you. And I
want to get into this story right, very interesting story
on CBS News. CBS News reporting about this fraud case.

(11:44):
As you know, doctor Oz has been making the rounds
talking about fraud in many different places, not the least
of which in California and Minnesota. And we've got this
fraud story that I gotta tell. It's like it doesn't
go away. This one's coming out of La Listen.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
To this, right.

Speaker 9 (12:13):
So, I'm on the scene of a FBI led raid
of a home owned by a husband and wife, a
psychologist and a nurse, who the FBI says ran a
fraudulent hospice for years, racking up over seven million dollars.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
In fraudulent payments. I don't know if you can get
a sense, but.

Speaker 7 (12:33):
We are.

Speaker 10 (12:35):
In a very very nice part of town. We're in
the city of San Dimas in a very early area.
Homes are all behind gates and essentially hidden behind all
of the screenery here. This is a very private, exclusive area.
You wonder where the money from hospice fraud goes.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Some of it goes to funding a certain certain lifestyle.
See one one.

Speaker 11 (13:04):
Arrest a man as one person a man in custody. Uh,
this is uh the alleged this is the owner of
an alleged fraudulent aprospice.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Uh, this would probably be I guess the psychologist.

Speaker 11 (13:22):
I see to see further back, a woman being escorted
as well.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
I see two people. I see a few.

Speaker 12 (13:30):
People being escorted.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Actually a few of those I.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Think I've seen many four five. Anyway, we're seeing a
number of people.

Speaker 11 (13:40):
Being escorted out under the last retirement five duality.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
Too.

Speaker 11 (13:48):
Not entirely clear who's who, but we do know that
two of the targets included a husband, a life team
and a husband a psychologist and life and.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Nurse the same time. Fauger dispis for many years.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Yeah, guy, all right, bring that down a little bit.
This guy, I don't know his name. His name Adam
my My, Adam Maya Gucci. I'm sorry, I can't say
the name, but Adam nice. Try here to report on
the news. But you're not giving us much news. I
don't know what's going on here. I can barely hear him.
But just like CNN would bring people like when they

(14:28):
rated Roger Stone, CBS News is not bringing this guy
on these things. So it doesn't matter what side of
the aisle you're on, right, there's always going to be
somebody with a camera when the swat team is here
to take you down. And again that's the case here
these guys doing their reports, CBS News reporting that these
this doctor and nurse were defrauding the government. Right, very

(14:54):
interesting stuff coming out of Los Angeles. And this is
this is I mean, I guess it comes as no surprise, right,
Why is it no surprise, Well, because doctor Oz was
out there talking about this for quite a while, not
that long ago, and he said, we're hitting it hard,
and he's leading this initiative to go ahead and bring

(15:16):
people down. And now I think they've brought in around
eight different people in the last couple of days with
respect to healthcare fraud right in southern California. This one,
let's see here, they used fifty million bucks. It seems
they were using healthy patients, luring them into this scam

(15:40):
just to get kickbacks. Yeah, this is verre. They used
hundreds of people, by the way, all right, this is
the reporting from the foxnews dot com website. A sweeping
federal takedown in Los Angeles has exposed what prosecutors are
saying is a brazen, multimillion dollar scheme that turned an
end of life care program into a cash allegedly using

(16:01):
people who weren't even dying to rip off taxpayers out
of more than fifty million bucks. Eight defendants, including nurses,
a chiropractor, and an alleged psychologists, were arrested in a
crackdown targeting sham hospice operations and fraudulent medical building schemes.
According to the Department of Justice, at the center of

(16:21):
the case, hospice companies are accused of signing up healthy patients,
paying kickbacks, and pocketing millions from Medicare for treatment that
was never needed or never provided. Here's a quote. We
are enforcing a zero tolerance policy for criminals who defraud
American taxpayers. That's first United States Attorney Bill Assale on Yeah,

(16:46):
today Thursday. Now, the defendants arrested this morning who were
charged with stealing millions of dollars of health care benefits,
got caught and now they face years in federal prison.
One of the most strikingations involved an Anaheim nurse, Lalita Minrd,
who prosecutors say ran a hospice business that recruited patients
that I'm at a market promising them free services and

(17:10):
three hundred dollars in months as long as they enrolled right,
three hundred dollars in cash excuse me per month. Another
one was a couple who signed up who weren't terminal ill,
something their doctor confirmed, but were allegedly plaid six hundred
dollars a month in envelopes of cash while Medicare was
billed for end of life care. Mister excuse missminrd's company

(17:35):
alone submitted more than nine point one million dollars in
forra audulent claims, collecting roughly eight and a half million
from taxpayers. Wow, let's see what else we got here.
Investigators say that the pattern repeated across multiple cases. Patients
who weren't dying were enrolled in hospice and these marketers

(17:56):
were paid illegal kickbacks, and the providers were cashing on this,
all while delivering little or no legitimate care the defendants
charged today. This is again according to the Inspector General T.
March Bell from the Department of Health and Human Services,
saying that the defendant's charge today allegedly turned hospice care
into a cash producing operation, were resulting in more than

(18:19):
fifty million dollars in losses to taxpayers, and anyone who
seeks to weaponize hospice care to builk Medicare should expect
to be held accountable. In another case, a Covida, California couple,
a nurse and a self described psychologist that's the one
the CBS was reporting on, allegedly pulled in more than
four million in Medicare and spent it on mortgages, international travel, restaurants,

(18:42):
and personal bills. Well, I mean, when people enriched themselves,
that's what they're gonna do. They're gonna spend it, you know,
on their cost of living. It's not like they're gonna
come out and say, yeah, we stole four million bucks
and we decided to make a film. Come on, they're
going to buy stuff and live life, take trips. Federal
prosecutors say one repeat offender went even further, allegedly running

(19:03):
multiple fraudulent hospice companies while allegedly facing charges in separate
in a separate case and legally barred from operating such businesses.
Look at that, he was like, all right, well, while
I'm going to trial for this and you guys are
looking at me over here, I might as well just
go ahead and run thees. It'll take you that long
to get me by. Then I will make more money now.
In addition to hospice fraud, authority say the takedown and

(19:24):
covered nineteen million dollars a scheme targeting Labor Union's health plan.
The defendants allegedly build for fake or unnecessary chiropractic and
therapy services and even fabricated patient records. Today's arrests are
another decisive strike on our war on fraud. Department of
Labor Inspector General Anthony Esposito said, if you steal from

(19:47):
workers or taxpayers, your time is up. We will find you,
investigate you, and hold you accountable. So that's what we
got going on here coming out of Southern California. And
I think it's interesting, right, very interesting. Southern California seems
to be a hotbed, just like daycare fraud was a
hotbed for the folks in the Somali communities in Minnesota.

(20:10):
In Minneapolis. Now you've got Southern California where people are
doing what they do. Very interesting stuff. Now these guys
are taking this very seriously. They're saying that healthcare fraud
undermines federal programs, threatens public trust diff its resources away
from legitimate patient care, and all those that profit at
the expense of the taxpayers and patients will be held accountable.

(20:33):
So everybody is doing their things. They're on their game.
They're minding their p's and queues, which, for those of
you who may not know, means minding your pints and courts.
It's a bar expression from Europe. Anyway, I've convicted many
of these defendants face up to ten years in federal prison,

(20:53):
with some charges carrying even longer sentences. All right, anyway,
that's the latest on is healthcare fraud. Now, I'll tell
you this, I am. I'm glad to see it. Not
much I can add to this other than a couple
of months back, I did a story about a guy

(21:16):
named doctor a man what was his name, Muhammad Muhammad Kasmir,
I think it was doctor Kasmir ka z M I
R I think and uh. He was a regular MD,
you know, internal medicine that began to offer different services

(21:40):
in in his practice. You know, he had a place
in Manhattan Park Avenue, he had a place in several
places in Jersey. And I I'd met this guy and
he was not Kasmir. What was his name anyway, drawn

(22:02):
a blank, But anyway, I met the guy and he
was like, oh, yeah, oh, you do like, you know,
marketing through radio and whatever. At the time, I was
doing these red carpet parties. Excuse me, and I said
yeah yeah, And you know, he's like, oh, I would
like to you know, promote my business. I do a
lot of esthetic skincare stuff. And I was like, oh,

(22:23):
like a dermatologist and he was like, no, I'm you know,
I'm an internist, but you know, we offer a lot
of very customized service and blah blah blah blah blah.
And I had done this type of thing in the
past with another doctor, very reputable, and he had a
lot of celebrity clients, and that was why he was
interested in coming to this red carpet event that I
was producing because it was in part we were donating

(22:44):
some of the money to VH one Save the Music Foundation,
and there was going to be you know, a handful
of celebrities there, so he wanted to put his brand
in front of those people and you know, get referrals
from them to their celebrity friends, et cetera. So it
made sense for him, and I was telling this guy
about that, and he said, yeah, I want to do
that too. You know what's it cause how does it work? Well?

(23:05):
You know, you know, do you need anything that I
that I have or I offer? And long story short,
he nice guy, but I remember seeing him and him saying,
you know what's going on? You need anything? And I
was like, no, I'm good for now. You know, if

(23:26):
I need anything, I'll let you know. And you know,
I'll let you know when the next event I have
coming up. And I said, you know, how are things
you're still doing your thing with, you know in the
city I'm park have And he said, no, man, they
gave me a hard time there at my license. You know,
they're giving me a hard time. So if you know
anybody who needs anything, just you know. I'm working out
of my my office in Jersey and out of my house.

(23:49):
And I was like, oh interesting. And then one day
I'm just reading an article and it was him. He'd
been arrested for billing Amtrak the healthcare the health insurance
company for Amtrak workers like Amtrak police and Amtrak you know,
railroad workers for all sorts of things that they never did.

(24:14):
I don't know if he was paying some of them.
I think he might have been paying some of them
and they were in on it. But for the most part,
I think he just got access to their records and
just build them. And yeah, and he got in trouble
when he went to jail. It was at least that's
I believe what was alleged by the US attorney in
New Jersey who indicted him. And I thought to myself, man,
can you believe that, Like this guy was once a

(24:35):
doctor on Park Avenue and now he's likely locked up
and again, nice guy. It just really really something. Anyway,
that was my two cents on that. I'm gonna pause
it right here. We're gonna come right back. We're going
to talk about a series of articles that I saw
online and in the New York Posts and other places

(24:57):
that had a very similar theme. Teachers that we're getting
sexually involved with their students. And I don't know all
the answers to this here, Like I don't know if
these are you know, gross middle aged men messing around
with small kids, or I do know in some cases
they were women between the ages of twenty seven and

(25:17):
forty seven messing around with students. And my thinking is,
who are these students. What is going on here? And
I was so confusing. I still have a lot of questions,
but I'm going to share some of that stuff with
you and re return. Keep it locked right here. I'm
Rich Valdees.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
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Speaker 4 (25:52):
With Rich Valdes.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
The honor is all you conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez. All right, amigos, welcome back.
And I wanted to bring your attention over to this
story that I saw that I thought, man, this is
wild stuff. Now this is a little bit old, and

(26:20):
I'm just going to replay it for the sake of
showing you a theme that while this happened around Christmas time,
it happened again in January, again in February. Here we
are in March April, and it seems to not be stopping.
So listen to this. Out of Arizona News twelve.

Speaker 13 (26:38):
Kopa County Attorney's Office is looking at felony chargers for
two Peoria High School teachers from the same school. It
comes are after an investigation film they allegedly engaged in
sexual relationships with underage students.

Speaker 14 (26:50):
Twelve News journalist Sean Rice reviewed both police reports and Sean,
you're joining us now in studio with what you found.

Speaker 15 (26:57):
Yeah, Troy krebagod eating to you both. Peoria Police spent
the last five months collecting evidence against two Centennial High
School teachers. One is twenty seven years old and the
other is forty seven years old. We are not naming
either educator because they have yet to be charged criminally,
but the allegations in these two police reports are incredibly concerning. Now.

(27:18):
Peoria PD began their investigation back in July. That's when
parents of a sixteen and seventeen year old boys both
came forward with evidence that this forty seven year old
teacher had been sending explicit, sexually explicit photos and videos
to their children. The woman declined to answer questions from police,
even though they had them in their possession, but police

(27:38):
analyzed the tattoos on the woman's body in those they
concluded she was the person in these videos. Then Peoria
police opened an investigatation into another female teacher. They collected
mountains of digital evidence proving the teacher was asking to
perform sexual acts on a male minor student. They performed
a search warrant at that Peoria apartment complex. They collected

(27:59):
her call and in the backseat they found bodily fluids
from unknown people. They also found money exchanges of six
hundred and thirty dollars paid from the teacher to the
students over a two month period. And as you just
saw in one of those text messages, the teacher said, quote,
this money exchange feels like straight prostitution. Peoria police have

(28:20):
recommended she'd be charged with pandering for prostitution. They argue
they use the money to coerce the minor student to
engage in sexual acts with her. The key to this case,
according to a criminal defense attorney, is having these minor
victims willing to take the stand in a court of law.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Can you believe that that is wild? Johnny Carson wanna
say that has some weird wild stuff. Now it doesn't
end there. Now they bring in the lawyer and they
do the rest of this news package. Let me tell you,
I'm gonna play it all just because I thought it
was so eye opening. Then I'm going to show you
the trend that has emerged in multiple other cases that
are very similar. Listen to this.

Speaker 16 (29:00):
A lot of times the prosecutor needs a victim, and
that's why some of these cases it takes so long
to bring a case because sometimes victims are reluctant to
testify because of emotional history and trauma and they might
not want to come forward to become public.

Speaker 15 (29:16):
You can certainly understand that, but that is the key
to a potential prosecution. That Peoria Unified School District says.
Both teachers are now on administrative leave. They've been on
leave for the past several months. The district is conducting
their own investigation into these alleged criminal activities, you know,
sexual acts that may have been performed. That is an
investigation that is completely separate from the one being conducted

(29:37):
by Peoria police. Now police set this case to prosecutors
for review back on November eighteenth, the Maricopa County Attorney's
Office could not give me a timeframe on when they
will make a charging decision.

Speaker 14 (29:49):
Try so, Sean, were these two incidents connected, like, were
the teachers somehow connected to each other? And this was
a whole you know, you know, coordinated in all four.

Speaker 15 (30:01):
Of it's talked about that Peoria police was looking into
whether or not there was messages between these two teachers.
They couldn't find a lot of evidence that connected they
were working in coercion or anything connected to one another,
besides maybe seeing each other in class every day or
in school every day. What I will say is it's
talked about extensively with other minors. Peoria police interviewed that

(30:22):
this was known in the school. This was known that
these two teachers were having maybe some sexual relations with
minor students that they should not have been.

Speaker 13 (30:29):
And even exchanging money for those acts.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, that one case. All right, we'll see what happens
with this. Thank you. Known in the school. They were prostitutes,
not the teachers. The teachers were, obviously John's. I laughed,
not because I think it's funny, because I think it's
just so crazy, right, that's the uh, the laugh of
incredulity here. It's hard to believe this stuff, but that

(30:52):
is in fact an actual case. Now I'm going to
double back here to these stories that I found. They're
labeled right here. Listen to this. Here's the first one
wild stuff, And I thought to myself, man, this is
really really something. Now this one has a photo of

(31:13):
the teacher her mug shot, I wouldn't give her a
time of day. Next to it a headshot and yeah,
I probably, you know, talked to her at a bar
or something. You know, she's not pretty but not ugly,
and you know it seems like a friendly face. Now,
let's see here if this has the link to the
article that I'm looking for. The caption here Teacher of

(31:36):
the Year finalists couldn't keep away from this kid that
she was charged having sex with. So the headline here,
she's pretty stupid. I would agree with that. This is
the story of the Teacher of the Year finalists for
Colorado's Teacher of the Year used music and drugs to
groom a sixteen year old student for sex and then
continue to contact him even after she was fired and

(31:58):
hit with serious charges. Who does this stuff? I mean,
that's just wild stuff. Anyway. Her name Tara Johnson Swartz,
and she's now been sentenced to fourteen years in prison
after being hit with two criminal cases, the first following
a grand jury investigation into her relationship with a teen
for the second and the second account for continuing contact

(32:20):
with that same teen in defiance of court orders telling
her not to. Here's a quote coming from one of
the fidavit's involved here, obtained by CBS News. She is
pretty stupid. I'm not gonna lie, the victim told police
after her second arrest. That's the victim wow. Calling her
an unstable woman already ruined her life and she keeps

(32:41):
making it worse. That's another quote from the victim. The
former teacher at Stems School in Highlands Ranch, just outside
of Denver is a predator who will now have to
live with that label for decades. According to Douglas County
District Attorney George Bruschler, she began texting and exchanging music
playlists in twenty twenty four, when the student was just

(33:02):
sixteen years old. The Affidavid showed. She later brought him
cigarettes and then let him use her marijuana vape pen
before they started to have sex. According to police, Their
relationship was discovered and reported to police in January of
twenty twenty five, five months after Johnson Swartz had been
named one of the seventh finalists in Colorado's Teacher or

(33:23):
the Year award. That's so funny, I laughed, because I
have my own stories about stupid things like this, not
that I was involved in, but things that I'd heard
when I was in high school. Let's see here we continue.
Their relationship was discovered and reported to police in January
twenty twenty five, just months after Johnson Swartz had been

(33:45):
named one of the seventh finalists for Colorado's Teacher the
Year award. School officials immediately suspended her, and she was
later fired and banned from campus. However, less than a
month later, on February eighteenth, twenty twenty five, the student
was caught on security camera leaving the school and jumping
into Johnson Schwartz's car. He later told investigators she drove

(34:06):
him to a nearby neighborhood. She was later indicted and
arrested on charges of felony, kidnapping, three counts of sexual
assault on a child, and contributing to the delinquency of
a minor. She was released on a one hundred thousand
dollars bond the following day, but continued to contact the
student against court orders. According to the documents that the

(34:26):
court provided, over the fourth of July weekend last year,
the teacher and the boy ran into well, the boy.
The guy is seventeen years old now, but we'll still
call him the boy. Ran into each other on back
to back nights at a music venue in Greenwood Village.
The band playing Both Knights was among those on the
playlists the two had shared. At one point, she cornered

(34:50):
the teen and just told him just say you don't
love me. Oh man, it's like some fiddle attraction stuff.
After seeing him both nights, Johnson Swore continued to text him.
The boy and his parents reported the encounter to the police,
and she was arrested again at her house. After she

(35:11):
was quit teaching, she had found a job at a
fast food restaurant. The boy said he was not surprised
she was unable to stay away from him, calling her
an unstable woman. She'd throw away her entire life for me,
and I'm not entirely surprised by the fact that she
then would have trouble letting go, because she did throw
her life away for me. But no, I never told

(35:33):
her I loved her, and she never said that to me,
he said, according to the affidavit. Wow, so that was
the first story that caught my eye that brought me
into that next story. And there's yet another one that
I'll get into. Really just wild, I mean, I don't
know about you. But I don't hear about this stuff
on a daily basis. And when I was in school,

(35:54):
things like this didn't happen. I'll tell you the things
that did happen when I was in school, but this
is not one of those things. Let's see next story.
This one here. New Jersey teacher had sex with a
student six times after grooming him starting at age twelve.

(36:16):
Prosecutors saying, you strip me of my innocence. Ooh, this
is a younger teacher, younger looking. Let's see New Jersey
teacher grooming. You stripped me of my innocence. That's the headline.
A married former New Jersey middle school teacher had sex
with her students six times and then continued to carry

(36:39):
out six years of grooming, manipulation, and abuse, starting with
a boy was just twelve years old, according to a prosecutor.
According to bail hearing last Wednesday, Ashley Fissler, thirty six
years old, had sex with her student and then continued
sexting with him for years, as recently January twenty twenty six,

(37:02):
even after the teen told her he wanted her out
of his life. Gloucester County Prosecutor Kylie Finley alleged in
her indictment, saying quote, this was more than just six
isolated acts of sex abuse against the minor. Finley said,
this was a pattern of six years of grooming, manipulation,
and abuse by this defendant as a middle school teacher

(37:23):
against one of her active and former students. Fissler, who
appeared from Salem County by video from the jail there,
looked on during the nearly hour long hearing, wearing dark
green jail scrubs and only speaking to confirm her name,
saying Ashley Fissler. Through the years, miss Fissler, a social

(37:46):
studies teacher at Orchard Valley Middle School in Washington Township,
exchanged disturbing messages with the teen, including offering to buy
him a sex toy, shave his pubic hair, asking him
I'm reading directly from the article by the way in
the New York Post, asking him to describe the sex
he had with girls his age, recommending steamy movies to him,

(38:08):
and requesting he sent her photos of himself. Wow, definitely
never happened to me. When I was in school, the
most I ever got was a note to my parents
saying we want to see them. In addition to back
to school night, and that never went over well. Finley
said her office had seven thousand, five hundred pages of

(38:30):
text messages between the teacher and the boy as she
argued that Miss Fissler beheld without bail while her case
played out. Finley, the prosecutor, explained the pair sent explicit
photos of themselves to each other, but her office was
unable to recover them. Finley said that the victim's statements

(38:50):
to the police were corroborated by the text to her office,
and they've been going on since twenty twenty three straight
through twenty twenty six. In August ninth message from twenty
twenty three, the teacher was reminiscing with the victim about
when the victim was in middle school, specifically at a

(39:10):
time that the victim came to her classroom on her
prep period and the defendant made out with the victim
and they were grinding. So, when this guy was in
middle school, I guess, saying he was twelve or thirteen
or something like that, he was making out with a
teacher who then was thirty three years old. Wow, Finley said, asking,

(39:34):
adding excuse me, Finley is the prosecutor. Fistley is the defendant,
adding that this match specific details he gave to investigators.
The prosecutor also said the victim to old Fistler, he
was struggling mentally, and I can't imagine why. I'm honestly,
I think if this were to happen to me, and
I don't know, but if this word happened to me,

(39:56):
I don't know that I would struggle mentally. I would likely,
you know, feel like I'm the man. But that's just
me and all of my friends. I think we would
all agree with that. Anyway, He was struggling mentally and
physically in school because of his relationship with the teacher.
In December of twenty three, he confided with the teacher

(40:19):
that he was thinking about her and getting excited, etc. Etc.
She creepily responded, according to the post, oh my gosh,
that's fantastic. What a frick guy. The deed also began
telling Fistler about his mental health struggles in twenty twenty three.
She responded, I feel like I forced you to grow
up abnormally quick. Wow, that's pretty deep. And another time

(40:40):
she told him I take the blame for all of this.
When he said he didn't want to sleep with the
girls his own age because he worried he'd think of her.
She just said, don't call her Ashley in bed, which
was her name. He eventually told her about an encounter
he had with another girl, another teenage girl, and she
told him I wish it was me, and then went
on to asking graphic questions. The victim can't even have

(41:04):
a normal sexual encounter with an age appropriate person without
her making it about her, the prosecutor said. The teenager
tried multiple times to break off the relationship, but the
teacher continued trying to control him, also having him check
in with her at least weekly and in most cases daily.

(41:27):
The teenager wrote a message to her saying quote, I
have to be really I have to be. I have
to try. I have to try really hard to rebuild
the things you broke inside of me. You destroyed things
inside of me, you stripped me of my innocence. Well,

(41:48):
either he was really hurt or that's something the prosecutors
told him to write as part of their case, because
I can't imagine a kid that age saying that just
seems so mature. Anyway. By January of twenty twenty six,
he told the teacher, I don't want you in my
life anymore. I'm getting older and I look back on
the situation, I can't help but see you as a
manipulative and selfish, she wrote back, adding he says there's

(42:11):
no remorse here, and when Fissler eventually quit teaching, she
said the reason was because she blurred the lines with
another student. The teen reported the abuse to the police
in January, also alleging exchange that they exchange in oh,
that she exchanged inappropriate messages with two other students, including
sending one of the photos of herself in a bikini.

(42:34):
Mind you, this woman is married and there's a photo
of her with her husband. Seems like a handsome guy
from what I can tell here, Like if you've ever
seen the show The Bachelor, every bachelor to me has
looked the same, right. They're all white guys with like
brown hair, pretty short hair kind of top, a little
longer on top, with a slight beard, stubble type of thing.

(42:57):
He's that guy and she from the profile here again,
younger thirty something, pretty nice hair is blown out in
this picture. She doesn't seem ugly at all, and she's married,
so by all means she's a sick woman. She really
is a sickoh. Her defense attorney, Rocco Sipparone. He says
that his client isn't a flight risk, and she's married

(43:19):
and owns a house and lives near all of her
family in the Garden State. He also claimed that since
she quit teaching in twenty twenty three, she's not a
risk to any other students. He claimed that the reason
she quit was because she helped the student cover up
a hickey on their neck and hide it from their parents. Oh,
so she's a lib on top of everything, which was
what she meant when she stated she blurred the lines.

(43:40):
Yeah right, whatever, This is deeper than that. I'm pretty
sure they go on. Judge William Ziegler says he would
issue a ruling this coming week and order another video
hearing to hear from the teacher. He said to the
fact that she had no criminal history and other midiganting
fan comes with a recommendation to release her, but he

(44:02):
wanted to review the law, saying, quote, I want to
give this careful consideration because a decision one way or
the other sets the tone for the entire case. The
judge signed a restraining order barring the teacher from having
any contact with the victim. Again, that's the second story,
just in a string of things that I just happened
to stumble upon. Then it gets better. There's one more. Yes,

(44:26):
bear with me, because quite frankly, I think this is
just interesting to say the least. Right now, let's see.
Now we get to this third one, which I think
might be the one I started with, but the actual
article here, Yeah, because now I think they were charged.
Excuse me, all right, here we go. So special ed
teacher admits having sex with two students, once with both

(44:48):
in the same room, saying, quote, I made a mistake again,
wouldn't say she's ugly. It does look crazy, but not ugly.
Looks twenty something brown hair. Let's see if I'm right.
A special ed teacher admits to having sex with two students,
once with both in the same room, according to police.
High school special ed teacher allegedly admitted to doing this
in Wisconsin. World studies teacher Nadia Horn twenty two. Yeah,

(45:10):
I'm pretty good at this admitted to having sex with
both pupils, including three times with one who told cops
they did everything that you could do with a person.
According to the complaints shared by Weau TV that first
victim was in the room when she had sex with
the other boy too, with the teacher groping him before
he left. According to the disturbing court documents, she says,

(45:35):
I made a mistake is what she allegedly told the
cops in her interview, wildly claiming that the teacher pupil
sex felt mutual. Horn's confession came after she was seen
weeping in her mugshot as cops said they were investigating
her for several victims. Horn bought the first victim and
iPhone fourteen in January. When he said he was un

(46:00):
able to snapchat her, she was like, snapchatman, He said, no, no,
I can't. I'll buy your phone.

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Then send him very revealing snaps and asked him to
meet outside of school. The teacher at North High School
in Eau Claire admitted during her police interview that the
snaps potentially included nudes. The teacher, who faces up to
forty years if convicted, allegedly told students she couldn't wait
to see him and claim seeing him made her body

(46:27):
feel a certain way. She also encouraged him to skip
class so he could come over to her apartment with
the last request just hours before she was arrested. I
shouldn't be asking you this, but will you come over?
She messaged him. Horn brought both victims to her home
to hang out before allegedly having sex with the second boy.

(46:47):
She admitted that a third student was also at her
apartment and admitted to giving them wine, but denied supplying
them with any drugs. Horn also wildly claimed she didn't
feel as if she was taking advantage of the boys.
Horn had been hit with second degree sexual assault charges,
two counts of child endangerment, and two counts of sexual
assault of a child by someone who works with kids

(47:08):
or volunteers. The teacher is now suspended without pay. Appeared
at the Wisconsin court last Monday, and next court date
will be on the twentieth of May. She posted a
fifteen thousand dollars bond and was released from jail. So
you tell me if that is not a disturbing pattern

(47:30):
of events in things that at least this is something
that I thought would never happen. I did not think
that young, attractive female teachers took advantage of twelve to
seventeen year old boys. Never in a million years did
I think that this was something that happened, And if
it did, I'd say that happened once. I just gave

(47:52):
you three stories that just happened in the last six months.
So I don't know the answer to this, but I'm
curious to know your thoughts on it. I want to
know what do you think? Why is this happening? Has
this always been happening? Can you call me at eight
seven seven VALDEESK one and say, yep, yep, happened to me.
I was fighting them off. How do you I needed
a stick to fight off all my teachers in grammar school.
That was not the case for me, it was not

(48:12):
the case for any of my friends. And I just
I feel like we have entered a new dimension, a
new realm, a new way of doing life, where things
that once weren't now are And how did we get here? Right?
How did we in fact get here? The closest I
have of any stories like this was that I was

(48:32):
once bored to tears in a class that I was
very accustomed to sleeping in high school. It was my
social studies class. I probably said too much, but I
would fall asleep in this class all the time. And
one year, like whatever. Let's say, my freshman year, the

(48:53):
teacher would stare at me right in my face while
I was sleeping. I guess he was used to it
and he would just keep going. He was a veteran.
But the following year, I had a brand new teacher, young,
attractive and like fresh out of college, so maybe twenty two.
And I remember her just asking me everything okay, and

(49:14):
I was like yeah, and I didn't know what it meant.
Next thing, you know, I was in the guidance counsel's
office and they were asking me if I was using
drugs and I said, why why would you ask me that?
And they said, well, your teacher says you can. You're
having troubles staying away in class. I said that's because
the class is boring, not because I'm on drugs. But
I was so offended by this that you know that
she referred me over this. And then I told a

(49:35):
friend of mine and he said, that teacher, the young one,
and I said yeah, He said, the blonde one. I
said yeah, and he said, dude, we were smoking weed
with her the other day. And I couldn't help but laugh,
and I was like, I was mad too. I was
like I can't believe she referred me for doing drugs
I wasn't doing and then she, in fact herself was
getting high with students. I later so a teacher, and

(50:01):
this teacher was also young and new and handsome guy,
good looking dude, and he I remember him saying something
I brought her up. I was like, oh, man, you
heard about this new teacher or whatever. I said, you
know her? And he said, oh, I know her really well. Yeah,
we've been out a few times. I was like, oh,
like that. He was like, yeah, I like that. He
was very open about his exploits with teachers. And that's

(50:25):
as crazy as I got in my high school. And
by then I was already you know, approaching junior year.
That was at the end of my sophomore year. But
that was it, right. It was the teachers that were
fraternizing amongst themselves and occasionally, you know, I guess, engaging
in the smoking of the the Devil's lettuce with some

(50:47):
of the students, which again, you know, at the time,
I thought, wow, I didn't know they did that. But
this stuff that I just told you out of control, right,
I mean, here they have me peeing in a cup
to prove that I'm not sleeping because she's but because I, uh,
you know, I was whatever they were alleging, and I
passed the test with flying colors. Needless to say, bottom line,

(51:10):
it seems like times have changed and we're on a
new Uh. I don't know, I don't know what to say.
I'm really at a loss here. I feel like it's
the devil's playground and we're just we're just spectators in it.
If you think I'm wrong, give me a call. Eight
seven seven Valdez. One more to come straight ahead. We're
gonna wrap this thing up. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 12 (51:30):
This is America, this is America.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
He's making podcasting great again. This is America with Rich Valdaz.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
All right, I mean it goes. Welcome back, Rich valdezk
keeping your company this Thursday, and I want to get
into something a little different, a little bit of a
political prognostication, if you will. They've been having a lot
of conversations with people, and I'm saying, look, listen, if
we don't win the midterms, Trump gets impeached. He's said that,
and we have a thin majority. So mentally, I'm saying,

(52:24):
doesn't look like we're winning. Now, that doesn't mean I
really don't think we're winning. Right. I like to mess
with people too, because people like to, you know, to
Rich fald has said, so I like to mess with
them a little bit. They come, what do you think
about I think we're losing. What do you think about twenty?
I think we're losing again. Right. The more I can
tell people I think we're losing, the better I think
people around me will be motivated to work really hard

(52:45):
to make sure that conservatives don't lose. But needless to say,
I am of two minds here obviously, right, I don't
have a crystal ball. I don't know, but it seems
to me Trump's very popular most places I go. And
again I'm talking about my impromptu interviews, whether it's talking
about gas prices that are something like three bucks, a leader, right,

(53:10):
a leader in Europe, or being in Texas or you know,
just those happen to be the places I've been recently,
or you know, just talking to people across the country
in different ways. I always find it very interesting, and
most people do support Trump. Most there is i'd say
twenty or thirty percent of people that I come across

(53:31):
that don't like Trump for whatever reason, and mainly because
the Democrats have been successful in painting him as Satan incarnate.
And I know it's a Holy week and I don't
want to get to spiritual here, but Satan incarnate, that's
how they've painted President Trump. And if they can convince
you that he is Satan, would skin on then Even

(53:52):
if he comes to you and says, to your child
is sick, I have the cure to her cancer, they
would say, get out of here, Satan, not today, Satan. Right,
That's literally what they've achieved with Donald Trump with a
number of people. Now, some people break free from this TDS,
this Trump derangement syndrome and give him an actual chance
to figure out, you know, whether they like the guy

(54:15):
or not. But others can't. And that's because it's in
their nature, it's in their past life, you know, traumas
that they need a bad guy and they need somebody
to hate, and why not Trump seems to be it.
He's a racist, you understand, he's a racist. But all
that being said, I feel like most people support trumpeto

(54:36):
and there are a number of places where Democrats continue
to make missteps. Now I say Democrats because that's the
largest term I can think of, right, But it's really
Democrats in Washington that are leading the way here, and
in particular the most progressive among them. Now, there is
no question in my mind that there is a growth

(54:57):
of people that accept communism for whatever reason, likely because
they haven't thought it out. They're the same ones that
will start with this. I don't support communism, but I
do support Democrats socialists. I think Zora Mumbani has a
lot of great things he's talking about. I think we
do have a problem with a really aggressive NYPD, and
maybe it is time to defund the police or bring
about some sort of meaningful reform. I think that's a

(55:19):
conversation we have to have. What about affordability. People can't
even afford to live in New York anymore. You've got
young people that are working that can't even split an
apartment amongst three people. You've got a housing crisis like
you've never seen. I mean, we can't continue to pretend
this isn't happening. President Trump isn't doing anything about it now.
Of course that's not me saying that. That's what the

(55:40):
Democrats would say to argue with me, understood, So they
get on that high horse, and they feel like, man,
they've just convinced themselves. They have now whipped themselves into
a little bit of a frenzy where they feel confident
because they were just shadow boxing in a mirror that
wasn't fighting back. And you know what happens. They start
to put pressure on their friends. They go to the
Chuck Schumers of the world and the rest of the

(56:00):
Democrats and they try to push them further and further
to the left. And President Obama's chief of staff who
went on to run for mayor of Chicago and win.
His name is Ram Emmanuel. Ram Emmanuel was very honest
in a podcast recently saying that Democrats have lost the
plot in this story. This, I think is important. It's

(56:21):
important that we pay attention to what Ram Emmanuel's saying,
because I believe he's saying this for the political purpose,
the self serving political purpose of trying to make a
lane for himself, saying, I am the anti AOC Democrat,
I am the anti squad. I don't support that kind
of crazy. I don't want your kids playing in, you know,
in the opposite sexist sports. But we still hate Trump

(56:43):
and he's trying to create this lane. But even they
are realizing it's time for a realignment. Check this out.
It's the plot.

Speaker 17 (56:50):
We as democrats nationally, from LATINX to defunding the police,
to police organizations are all racist, to bringing a set
of cultural wars to our schools, losing sight of those
cultural wars full stop. You are worried about bathroom access
and locker room access. Why don't you focus on classroom excellence.
You have fifty percent of our kids not reading at

(57:10):
grade level.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
Well they can just say we can do both.

Speaker 17 (57:12):
You've proven you can't because you've permitted a thirty year
low and reading of mass scores, and nobody seems to
be calling the whistle on this. We lost the plot.
Why because the party got unanchored, every one of our
most successful electoral presidents anchoring themselves in what I call
middle class values and values that are universal, at least
in this country, ascribed to. We went from acceptance to advocacy.

(57:36):
Big difference. And I'll just take one on that I
shouldn't so here it goes. I remember fighting for title nine,
the reason we are champions and women's sports in the Olympics,
in soccer hockey, Title nine. Why would you undercut the
premise of Title nine with the ability of trans men
playing in women's sports.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
To me, it's insane, baffling.

Speaker 17 (57:57):
You are undermining one of the great accomplishments we as
a country, but also spearheaded by the Democratic Party.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Title nind and we're undercutting it. We lost the plot
that is rom Emmanuel again President Ohama, Obama's chief of staff,
And yeah, I think he's right. Yeah, I also think
he is desperately carving a lane for himself. I don't
think he believes that this will be a win for

(58:25):
him in the next go round. But I do believe
he thinks that if we carve this lane now, it
will exist for a number of years. And he may
not be wrong, right, he may be right that you
may get some Democrats that defect, right, the people that
were Democrats for Bobby Kennedy, for example, people that, like
he said, and for years we had you know, Obama

(58:48):
and Clinton had that in common that when they ran,
maybe not while they governed, but when they ran, these
guys were both championing the Defensive Marriage Act. Obama of
course went back on his position, took a new position,
and embraced all sorts of things, and then during his

(59:08):
administers I think it was during his administration the Supreme
Court approved marriage between men and women to be the
law of the land, and then he lit up the
White House in the colors of the LGBTQ flag. I
think that was a shift for him, but a safe
one politically speaking, because he could say, look, I'm just
following the Oh, let me be Claire, let me be Claire.

(59:30):
I'm just following what the court ordered. And yeah, listen,
he can play all the politics he wants, right, I
get it. Bottom line here is rom Emmanuel isn't wrong.
And I think this is what the Democrats are missing.
So the question I'll leave you guys with is will
the Democrats find a center? Will Gavin Newsom bring it back?

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Is that why he's been having conversations with Charlie Kirk,
God Rest his Soul and with Sean Hannity and a
hearing to be this I get along with conservatives kind
of guy. I don't know, but we'll find out. But
I'll say this. The only thing necessary for evil to
triumph is for good people to do nothing. And if

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you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. Is sta
LABROXI might take care, good night, and God bless you America.
I'm rich Valdez.

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This is America.